CARTOGRAPHY OF GENERATVE AI · The popularisation of AI has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation & mystification .. Estampa 👉🏻 cartography-of-generative-ai.net

🖥️#OpenAccess commentary in Geo🖥️ 'Governing AI, governing climate change?' by Eric Nost This piece considers the parallels and intersections between #AI and climate change governance in the context of 'AI for Good' initiatives. doi.org/10.1002/geo2.1…

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails” kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

"Now what the heck do we do about data centers?" virginiamercury.com/2024/04/03/now…

Thinking about presenting your research at the 2024 CAG meetings this summer in St. John's? Just came across all special sessions listed together in one spot! Many excellent options and it looks like it is going to be a great few days: cag-acg.ca/2024-sessions.

Already using this wonderful material by Estampa: Cartography of Generative AI cartography-of-generative-ai.net Below some graphics on the minerals used by AI 👇

"Tech companies are shopping for nuclear power to run new data centers" eenews.net/articles/tech-…

We're hiring two new PhDs focused on spatial modeling of segregation and future mobility in a joint project between KU Leuven and VITO. Excited about quant analysis and want to contribute to sustainable land use planning? More details: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

New book arrived at home, so I'll take that as meaning it's now published. Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods & Practice by James Ash, agnieszka leszczynski & myself. Published by Sage Methods. 17 chapters of insight & guidance uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/rese…

Data centers are draining resources in water-stressed communities A single data center can consume up to 5 million gallons of drinking water per day. archive.ph/7bunV

Happy to share this new paper (open access) in AI & Society with àlex muñoz viso and Betta Manalo. We reflect on how concepts of scale and place from #humangeography can inform more expansive approaches to #humanrobotinteraction "in the wild." rdcu.be/dLyQB

Govind, agnieszka leszczynski & Ate Poorthuis engage with spatialities of platform urbanism by drawing on a geocoded data set of visible, material traces of platformization collected across Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. 🚲🏬🌳 Learn about their findings: bit.ly/3RoCNZ1

👀 Jed Long

Countdown is on - Just 50 more sleeps until the publication of Urban Mobility: How the iPhone, COVID and Climate Changed Everything utorontopress.com/9781487551858/…

.RE Sieber is there going to be a SKI in 2025?

agnieszka leszczynski Looks like there will be a #SKI2025 !

The 1st of my Progress reports on digital geographies is out! I was honoured to be asked & thank the Progress in Human Geography team for their support. I hope it will be a good reference point for those interested in the topic! Digital geographies 1: Reality bytes - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…